The Role of Information Processing Systems in Engineering

1972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar H. Sibley ◽  
Hasan Sayani
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Role Of Information

Hierarchical Organization as a Facilitator of Information Management in Human Collaboration

2009 ◽  
pp. 44-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaled Ahmed Nagaty
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Hierarchical Organization ◽  
Team Collaboration ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Role Of Information

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the relationship between three entities: hierarchical organization, information management and human collaboration. This relationship is composed of two parts: the first part is the relationship between the hierarchical organization and information management where the role of the hierarchical organization to facilitate the information management processes is discussed. The second part is the relationship between information management and human collaboration where the role of information management to improve human collaboration in problem solving is discussed. The information management processes are illustrated through an information management life cycle model. This model has three major stages: active, semi-active and inactive stages and has three major phases: creation, searching and utilization phases. The creation phase includes: information creation and using, information authoring and modifying and information organization and indexing. The searching phase includes: information storage and retrieving and information exchange. The utilization phase includes: information accessing and filtering processes. The arguments about the role of hierarchical organization in information management and human collaboration are also discussed. The author showed that the hierarchical organization acts as a facilitator for common information management processes which are required in team collaboration such as: information gathering, organization, retrieving, filtering, exchange, integration or fusion, display and visualization. Human collaboration models are discussed with emphasis on the team collaboration structural model which has four unique but interdependent stages of team collaboration. These stages are: team knowledge construction, collaborative team problem solving, team consensus, and product evaluation and revision. Each stage has four levels: meta-cognition process which guides the overall problem solving process, the information processing tasks which is required by the team to complete each collaboration stage, the knowledge required to support the information processing tasks and the communication mechanisms for knowledge building and information processing. The author focused on the role of information management to improve human collaboration across the four collaboration stages of the team collaboration structural model. He showed that the hierarchical organization is more efficient for information management processes and team collaboration rather than other alternative organizations such as flat, linear and network organizations.

The Critical Role of Information Processing in Creating an Effective Knowledge Organization

2009 ◽  
pp. 1638-1651
Author(s):  
William R. King
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Property Management ◽  
Core Knowledge ◽  
Intellectual Property Management ◽  
Knowledge Capability ◽  
Role Of Information

This article provides a conceptual framework and an architecture for an effective knowledge organization (EKO) that emphasizes the important role of information processing in facilitating the creation of a dynamic knowledge capability, which is the essence of an EKO. The architecture links core knowledge management, intellectual property management, organizational learning, and innovation modules with information processing as the hub, or linchpin. The organization’s need to distinguish among these components of an EKO is argued by comparing and contrasting the conceptual bases, objectives, processes, systems, performance measures, and culture of each module. This EKO viewpoint integrates many concepts and applications from various literatures, but it is somewhat contrary to the conventional wisdom that has tended to de-emphasize the significance of information technology in knowledge management.

The Role of Information Processing Between the Brain and Peripheral Physiological Systems in Pacing and Perception of Effort

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (8) ◽  
pp. 705-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan St Clair Gibson ◽  
Estelle V Lambert ◽  
Laurie H G Rauch ◽  
Ross Tucker ◽  
Denise A Baden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Perception Of Effort ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Role Of Information ◽  
Physiological Systems

Personality and Information Processing: We Are What We Encode

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Mathews
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Processing Styles ◽  
Individual Variations ◽  
Nature Of Information ◽  
Types Of Information ◽  
Role Of Information

This commentary addresses several questions raised by the papers in this special issue: about the nature of information processing methods in the study of personality, the degree to which processing biases are specific to certain types of information, the causal relationship between processing styles and personality, and the extent to which individual variations of information processing are automatic or can be controlled. The implications of the findings described in the papers published in this special issue for each of these questions are discussed, leading to some tentative suggestions for future research into the role of information processing as a contributory cause of personality differences. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Direct or indirect comparative ads: The moderating role of information processing modes

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arti D. Kalro ◽  
Bharadhwaj Sivakumaran ◽  
Rahul R. Marathe
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Processing Modes ◽  
Comparative Ads ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Role Of Information

scholarly journals Relations between gross motor skills and executive functions, controlling for the role of information processing and lapses of attention in 8-10 year old children

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. e0224219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene M. J. van der Fels ◽  
Joanne Smith ◽  
Anne G. M. de Bruijn ◽  
Roel J. Bosker ◽  
Marsh Königs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Executive Functions ◽  
Motor Skills ◽  
Gross Motor ◽  
Gross Motor Skills ◽  
Role Of Information

Biogeographic Computation as Information Processing in Ecosystems

2018 ◽  
pp. 127-161
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Pasti ◽  
Alexandre Alberto Politi ◽  
Fernando José Von Zuben ◽  
Leandro Nunes de Castro
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Processing System ◽  
Computational Approach ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Information Processing System ◽  
Original Proposal ◽  
Role Of Information

Assuming nature can be investigated and understood as an information processing system, this chapter aims to explore this hypothesis in the field of ecosystems. Therefore, based on the concepts of biogeography, it further investigates a computational approach called biogeographic computation to the study of ecosystems. The original proposal in the literature is built from fundamental concepts of ecosystems and from a framework called a metamodel that allows the understanding of how information processing occurs. This chapter reproduces part of the content of the original proposal and extends and better formalizes the metamodel, including novel experimental results, particularly exploring the role of information and causality in ecosystems, both being considered essential aspects of ecosystems' evolution.

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